IE7 Problem (tearing hair out)

Hello folks,
can anyone help me or at least point the direction I should be going in?

Suddenly my IE7 has stopped tabbing and opens a new window for each action.
I've been through the tools menu and tried every different combination in the General Tabs menu and restarted the browser after every combination I've had a look at the Registry all to no avail. That's why I'm tearing my hair out!

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IE 7 must be removed and IE 6 must be reinstalled. IE7 is so full of bugs
that it starts looking like a little bug circus. ( and under the big top
tonight ) LOL.

I found that when I installed IE7 that all of a sudden I had really funky
things start happening and pc would stop responding and windows wouldn't
open and downloads wouldn't be downloading correctly. It was one thing after
the other.
Once I went back and uninstalled IE7 and reinstalled IE6 then everything
went back to normal.

You may want to do this right away .

Good luck trying to find answers on microsofts website concerning these
problems if you decide to do that first.

Hello Phil
thanks, I'll try that first. I do like all my bells and whistles like my tool bars and I use a FDM (Free Download Manager) with no problems. If all else fails I'll install Firefox and say bye to MSIEanything.
Thanks again, James. (Honestly it's not alopecia)

have you tried going to control panel/folder options and unchecking the box

that says:

"Launch Folder Windows in a Separate Process"

Select this check box if you want to make Windows Explorer open each
separate folder window in a separate area of memory rather than sharing a s
ingle
area of memory among the folder windows displayed. Using separate folders
theoretically increases the stability of Windows, because if one instance o
f
Windows Explorer crashes, the others shouldnâ€™t be affected. However
, using
separate folders consumes more mem- ory and processor cycles. This option i
s turned
off by default. Turn it on only if you find that Windows seems to be crashi
ng
when youâ€™re working in Windows Explorer windows.

I had a similar experience with only certain websites but was able to
resolve it by changing all settings in Internet Options\Security\custom
to enable or prompt.

I kind of think it was probably only 1 setting like "navigate sub frames
across different domains" but the pcs belonged to busy users and I
didn't want to take the time to verify it.

Good Luck!

JK

Hello folks,
can anyone help me or at least point the direction I should be
going in?

Suddenly my IE7 has stopped tabbing and opens a new window for
each action.
I've been through the tools menu and tried every different
combination in the General Tabs menu and restarted the browser
after every combination I've had a look at the Registry all to
no avail. That's why I'm tearing my hair out!

There is a program called autopatcher xp out on the softpedia site. You may or may not be able to find a copy. Microsoft gave them a cease letter (after 4 years), But I was able to get it from this site. There is a copy of ie7 in this program that should fix/replace your ie7. Though I personally prefer to use firefox. I still need ie7

Hello folks,
the saga continues. I ran Autopatcher and can guarantee that it is quite
powerful, so powerful it knocked me back from XP Pro to Media Centre. A
quick restore solved that. However I did back it up to CD so I've always got
it for the time when I get the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) or in my
case the "white screen of how did that happen"?

I'll create a new partition on one of my external drives and install it
there. I'm also thinking of putting a Linux partition on that disk and
giving myself a dual/triple boot option. That's after I solve this IE7
problem. However FF is doing its job well even down to UK spell checking
through Google.